Monday, September 3, 2012

Heading To A Prosperous Life!

Bill Gates puts it, “If you’re born poor, it’s not your
mistake. But if you die poor, it’s your mistake." Gates might have purely
referred to material prosperity when he uttered these words. When he said poor,
he is literally referring to people who lack and are totally bankrupt of money and
material possession. The good thing about what he said is the
implication that each one of us must have something to do in order to alleviate
the way of our life, for us to be able to head to abundance and prosperity.

There was this story of three servants entrusted with
different amount of money according to their ability by a man (their master) going
on a journey. The first one was given five folds amount of money, two folds to
the second one and one fold to the third, to be exact. These servants have to make the
entrusted money productive so that when their master would return, he would be
happy and would say, “Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been
faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and
share your master’s happiness.”

It is clear that the first servant who acquired five folds
of money has far excellent ability compared to the other two. In fact, this
servant was able to gain five folds more when he worked hard with that money,
acquiring ten folds of money in all. The second man also worked hard and gained
another two folds. However, the third servant did nothing at all with the money
that his master entrusted to him. Instead, he dug a hole in the ground and hid
his master’s money.

When the master returned from his journey, he called all his
servants and settled accounts with them. The master was pleased with the two
servants that he was able to bless them by telling each one of them, “Well
done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I
will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness.”
However, he was not pleased with the third servant as the money he gave to him
did not even gain just a small amount of interest. So he said, “Take that money
from him and give it to the one who has ten more. For everyone who has will be
given more and he will have abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has
will be taken from him.”

Success starts in the mind

Each one of us is unique. Some may not be that intelligent,
but I am sure they have something good in them such as talents or skills that differentiate them from the other, allowing them to shine in their own way. We all have different talents
and skills that make us distinctive from each other. We all
have potential ability that once efficiently taken advantage of, will always
result to productivity or abundance. Some of us might be grappling upon financial instability, but I believe there must be a way out and one way will be through our unique potential ability.

I believe God created us diverse so that each one will turn
out unique, and rely on each other's capability. It is only through our uniqueness that will make us shine
together. However, not every one of us can shine in reality because just like
the third servant in our story, human has the tendency to be discouraged or have fear of the
unknown and become passive with life, resulting to idleness, unproductive life,
laziness, bankruptcy and eventually, poverty.

The third servant in our story was not only poor in material
possession, but also at how he viewed life. He did not realize that there is a great
possibility to make life more productive just as how the first and second servants
were conscious of this reality.

Some of us might be struggling enough and becoming fed up with
financial needs, taking it as absolute problem in life. However, this is not
actually the real problem. The actual valid issue in here is our inability to
recognize that we can do something with our situation, just simply because
God created us to become prosperous. God designed us with unique potential
abilities that we should use in order for us to be able to acquire our needs, in our own ways. Our
unique potential ability is a God’s given power for us. Our talents, skills,
knowledge, health, strength are just some of the unique potential abilities that
we can consider as God’s given power for us. Some of us might have been given much more just as the first servant in our story. However, there was a
strong effort needed for that servant in order to meet the expectation of his
master. So life is not unfair. God will only demand from us based on our abilities and from what He has given us. I remember this line in the movie Spiderman: “With great power comes
great responsibility.”

Conclusion

Everyone has great absolute potential and there is a seed of
success in each of us. What we only need is to unravel and cultivate them
that will lead us to a life of abundance and prosperity. We should then take the
responsibility to invest our whole life in whatever power God has entrusted us
for His glory. Remember, the more there is strong potential in us, God expects
us to maximize them fully for His glory.

The above story is based on Jesus’ Parable of the Talents in
the book of Matthew chapter 25 verses 14 to 30. This is another Biblical
principle telling us Jesus’ desire is only for our own good. Jesus said, “I came that they may have life and have it abundantly” (John 10:10b).

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